(Caenarfon, North Wales: c1920 - 9th June 1996)
Stage name of Ivor Parry. Printer by trade until retired. Semi-pro cardman since age 14. British Ring President 1984-85. For his biography see Rovi: The Story of a Man and his Magic by Richard Owen.
Coauthors: Lewis Ganson
Stapled booklet in good condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.
Rovi is a Gold Star Medalist of the Inner Magic Circle and a Member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He is an expert with a pack of cards and his particular brand of card magic has an enormous impact on magicians and members of the public. In this exclusive interview he has been persuaded to release several of his remarkable effects.
Featured in this recording are some of the card secrets that have earned Rovi regular engagements on TV and at exclusive hotels and private houses. The secrets he reveals are not for magicians out to amaze each other with manual dexterity but for...
Al Koran convinced Rovi that it was the easy-to-follow plot with a strong magical impact for which there appeared to be no explanation, that had the greatest impression on audiences. Rovi has followed that dictum with great success, devising routines of his own, all of which are styled to entertain. Those readers who expect to have to learn difficult sleights or memorize long sequences of moves, can breathe a sigh of relief. Rovi's magic is not like that, it is based on simplicity and subtlety.
These are all card effects except one, "Watched Coins" a marvelous coin routine.
This was part of the...